DAKOTA DATEBOOK: Grand Prize

April 26, 2024 — In 1954, the grand prize of the raffle for the St. Leo School’s carnival in Minot was really grand, and tempting, too: a cream and green-colored, 1954 Dodge.One very lucky person was drawn and announced, and on this day, the car was scheduled to be delivered to her—a five-year-old Menoken girl named Kathleen Richter.Money was tight for the family, but when t...